Modifying Roo-generated views

In most application scenarios, you'd like to modify the layout of the views generated by Roo or to change the placement of different form elements or add new form elements to the view. In this recipe, we will look at how you can modify the home page of the flight-app application.

The following screenshot shows the modified home page of the flight-app application:

The following are the modifications that we'll be doing to the Roo-generated flight-app application to display the home page, as shown in the given screenshot:

• Change the home page of the web application to show the name of the application as Flight Application

• Change the home page of the web application to describe the flight Application in detail, instead of the benefits of Roo.

• Change the banner image that shows up at the top of every web page

• Change the categorization of the menu to show the Create new Flight Description and Create new Flight options under the CREATE category, the List all Flight Descriptions...